My name is Ryan David Ginsberg. I am thirty years old. I am married to a wonderful human being named Teresa. I have three dogs--their names are Shadow, Midas, and Brother. I was skinny for nearly three months back in 2015--good times, good times.
I am a writer of poems, short stories, novels, and silly TikTok videos. I have been writing since I was sixteen years old. I have started and stopped countless blogs, upon which I have likely published thousands of poems, blog posts, and short stories. In college, I had a YouTube channel called 'TheGinsberger' where I posted vlogs, comedy skits, and one (very horribly made) short film called "To My Future Self" (Future Self here: Don't make a short film again). After college, I moved to Los Angeles and wrote a screenplay while living out of my car. The script, called 'Preparing to Die', was never made into a movie; instead, like its main character, it died (though I have turned it into a short story for my next book). After the failure of a screenplay, and then another that never made it past the thirtieth page, I turned my sights to more literary ambitions. My writing style, and the philosophy that guides my writing, has been greatly influenced by George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, William Saroyan, Sylvia Plath, and every other author I have read, person I have met, and social media post I have allowed to infiltrate my mind.
I was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. I was once religious myself, but I no longer am. I have three tattoos, all of which remind me—in different languages: English, Hebrew, and Tswana—to not kill myself. But when the thoughts and desires kept coming, even after the ink had settled into my skin, my therapist suggested I pair the tattoos with 20 MG a day of Paxil, or rather, a knock-off version, for that is all my insurance would cover. Name-brand pills are not a luxury I can afford. The combination of tattoos and pills seems to be working just fine, for I have yet to kill myself. Oh--as a depressed little nineteen year old boy I created a mixtape of spoken word poems.